How To Install WordPress on HostGator in 2016 [With Pictures]

Do you know WordPress powers 25% of the Website in the world, & it’s the simplest yet most popular blogging software ever made.

Getting started with WordPress is quite easy, and the very first step is to install WordPress on your hosting account.

Most of the shared hosting for WordPress offers quick script to install WordPress, and you don’t have to take manual route to create your WordPress blog.

Here I will be sharing steps you need to follow to install WordPress on HostGator hosting. HostGator offers various hosting packages and I suggest you to pick baby package which cost only $6.95/month and offers unlimited hosting package.

Step by step guide to install WordPress on Hostagtor:

One of the fastest and easiest way to Install WordPress on your hosting account is using QuickInstall powered by Mojo MarletPlace. It will make the installation process easy and within minutes you will have your WordPress blog installed, up and running.

HostGator offers various ways by which you can install WordPress on their server.

Manual

Quick Install

In this WordPress installation guide, we will be using the QuickInstall method on HostGator to install WordPress.

This is one of the easiest way to get started with WordPress & within 5 minutes your WordPress site will be up. Follow this guide and feel free to ask questions if you have any:

On the QuickInstall page you need to select “WordPress’ on the left side. In 2016, HostGator also offered services that will cost you a lot to Install & simply setup a Theme. I would suggest skip that option, & just follow this guide to setup every thing of your own. (It’s easy & doesn’t take much time)

On the next page, drop-down select the domain on which you want to install WordPress blog.

Here you can decide where you want to install WordPress. Either at the root of the directory or under sub domain. For example :

Root Directory : https://www.shoutmeloud.com

Sub directory : https://www.shoutmeloud.com/blog

If you are new to HostGator and have a baby plan or above plan, you can add as many domains as you want and you can host multiple websites on single hosting package.

Make sure that you don’t use “admin” as username, as this is a security risk. Rather use your email address or your nickname.

The point is to make it really hard to guess. Before hitting the magic button Install WordPress, Cross check if you have done everything right. Else rolling back things will consume time. Here is my settings look like:

While HostGator quick Install is setting up your WordPress blog, it might try to upSell you by offering stuff like WordPress theme or any such service.

I suggest you to Skip it & I did the same. It’s easy to Install WordPress of your own. It will take few minutes and your WordPress blog will be installed & you will get an email with your dashboard link, username & password.

on HostGator server and you can access your WordPress dashboard by going to “domain.com/wp-admin” (Replace domain.com with your actual domain name)

Make sure you add your email here. So that an information about the installation will be send to your Email blog.

What to do after installing WordPress blog?

Since you have understood the installation of WordPress. It’s time for now to configure your WordPress blog. Head over to following tutorial and link to theme resource and plugins which will help you to configure your WordPress blog.

If you face any issue regarding WordPress installation on HostGator, feel free to let us know via comments. If you find this post useful, don’t forget to subscribe to our Email newsletter for more such WordPress tutorials and updates.

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Harsh Agrawal is the founder & CEO of ShoutDreams, INC.
A blog scientist by mind and a passionate blogger by heart. His blog, ShoutMeLoud receives 1.5 million Pageviews/month and has over 832K subscribers.

Just on a random day on internet i found a service that google and hostgator are providing a free domain and free web hosting for 1 year for small business holders.I want to install wordpress on my domain.But i don’t find any option of fantastico on cpanel.
so,now can i now install wordpress on Hostgator.
Any other alternative..
domain is :networthy.in

@Vipul
What you talking about is IndiaGetOnline, which is an initiative from Google & hostgator together… Which is indeed a great initiative, but for technical people like you, I won’t recommend that service, as it comes with great number of limitations… Like you can’t install WordPress on it, and you have to use Website builder to make most out of it…

You can easily see Quick Install software above Fantastico in the image. Installing WordPress with Fantastico will only give you WordPress, while that with Quick Install will give you WordPress as well as WP SuperCache with recommended settings. Also, quick install is more user friendly. You should update about this.

@Animish
I would probably come up with a separate article for Quick Install software, WordPress installation. I always prefer to use clean WordPress install, and add all essential plugins, and make necessary changes after that. Though, I’m sure Quick install method would be useful for many.

Hi Harsh,
What is better – to install wordpress manually or through Fantastico?
Secondly is it good to have multiple installations on single database? Or we should have separate installation for each domain?
If we have multiple installations on single database can we have separate FTP accounts for each domain? From security point of view which is better?
Your quick response and advise is much appreciated.
Thanks.

It is some what difficult if we are installing word press but for the beginners your post will really helpful. Because the way you explained with screen shots are very straight forward. Keep up with these type of posts.

I found this article really useful. I set up my WordPress blog with Hostgator almost 12 months ago. I am about to set up more sites that will be mini-sites for different affiliate programs so this was on topic for me :-)

Really pleased with Hostgator who give excellent support. Have always found them helpful and will stay with them for all my new blogs too. I’m going to read through your other articles too. Thanks Harsh for sharing in a clear, concise manner that a newbie will find easy to understand and be able to implement. Apprecited.

I guess this is very simple and common tips. The autoinstaller is something built for newbie and I think this article was just a waste. You could instead write on MANUAL installation of wordpress on hostgator which would be more challenging than repeating the same here.

Hey Sagar
For a regular user like you, it may sound useless, since you know this already…
But for a newbie, such articles are really helpful…
I imagine myself 2 years back.. Such article could be a life saver for me.. !!
In case if you require a tutorial on manual WordPress installation, do let me know via Contact form and I would come up with an article for the same..!!

Hey Usi
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I could not understand how it will be free..This coupon code will give you 20% off on total amount.
Or alternatively you can use Coupon code SHOUTMELOUD to get first month webhosting for $0.01

Swamykant That article is complete useless.. Since WordPress upgrade issue which he pointed it’s the same with Fantastico or without it..
he should have changed the article title to why you should manually update WordPress.